TTR plays fast because of the way you pick cards. Your options are face up, and you can see them even before your turn. Shared tickets ('CutThroat') made TTR a much more interesting game. (And a much simpler one). Not just a deck, but a 'draft pool', using TTR's pick rules ("Pick a card: 1 face down or 1 face up. Do this twice".....The engines are 'wild', but count as two cards if you pick it as a face up card.

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